NOTHING THAT I DISLIKE ABOUT THE GAME ITSELF!! Its a great game and I enjoy it VERY VERYYY MUCH!! Its amazing💗 very fun and i am SOO close to getting married to Sam😁 anyway the issue im having is that when im listening to my own music and then try to open the app, the title screen goes black and doesn’t change at all, or if it does it just stays like that. Im not sure why that is but if you guys made it to where i am able to listen to music while playing OR just turn off my music and not freeze, that would be amazing. I don’t know if anyone else is having this issue, hopefully not but I really hope this is fixed if so❤️
I can play this game for hours. Absolutely love it. It’s such an amazing way to de-stress after work. The story is so fun, gameplay is relaxing and super accessible for folks who may not be big gamers and/or just want to play for fun without a huge challenge.
Anyway, I’ve been playing on my iPad most recently & am on the last day of summer in year 3. I’ve completed more challenges and found so many more locations and little surprises than I have in previous plays, but the game has started crashing every 10 minutes or so. The screen goes mostly black with a tan rectangle where the item menu typically is. I have to close out of the app entirely to fix, and lose all progress for the day I’m on. Upon reloading, I start at the beginning of that day, not where I left off. Super frustrating to have to redo the same day Groundhog Day-style multiple times an hour.
I have tried deleting and reinstalling the app with no luck. I even checked to see if I could transfer this save file to the regular version of Stardew (not Apple Arcade), and it looks like this is not possible.
Please please fix whatever bug is causing the game to crash.
I really enjoy this game. I’ve played a lot of farming sims and this game definitely puts them to shame. Granted there’s no equipment or anything like Farming Simulator for instance but you’re not farming on that grand of a scale. You have to manage what land you have and make the most of it. I love all of the extra features like making friends, mining, fishing, panning and restoring the community center. I’ve been playing this game for about two months now and it still gets my full gaming attention every day. I’m still very captivated with this game. Excellent work to the developers.
I love this game so much, so happy it released on Apple Arcade!!
I have a few things to say to the negative reviewers:
For those saying the cutscenes break randomly, try not tapping the screen until it finishes. If you zoom in or out it will break it. And also the one guy that says it will randomly zoom in all the way, he’s touching the screen with his other finger and not realizing it, I know from experience.
For those complaining about the controls, have you even looked in the settings?? There are a few options that make it way easier to control if you just take the time to experiment. Personally I use invisible joystick and 2 buttons and I adjusted the button sizes where I want them.
Lastly, those saying the game crashes a lot, I’ve only experienced a few really game breaking things, maybe like one or two crashes. Other times I’ll accidentally do something wrong with zoom and it makes the whole screen black and forces me to quit. Idk why it would crash so many times for so many people but I feel like it’s a hardware issue for most of them. And of course the game will crash and have bugs, all games do.
Not trying to be mean just trying to help everyone else have a great time playing the game! Can’t wait for haunted chocolatier!
The game is very fun and the time flies while I’m playing it. I think the difficulty of it is just right. I never feel overwhelmed by the tasks or objectives.
The issue is the bugs.
- One of the most common that I experience is not being able to go to bed at night. This usually happens if the cat is sleeping on the bed. I have found that I basically need to beat the cat to bed. But that basically means ending the day at 6PM.
- A less common bug that I have encountered is simply not being able to shop at and store. I click on the arrow at the store and nothing happens. When this bug happens I cannot buy or sell for that day until I go to bed and the next day starts.
- A bug that has happened to me in the mines a few times is that the screen seems too freeze during an encounter. The issue is with the game though as I am still able to zoom in and out in-game. I just cannot select anything.
There are many more bugs but most are one offs or not game breaking. But the ones listed above really affect the gameplay.
I absolutely love Stardew, so I was super stoked to see it available on Arcade. I’m 19 days into my first spring, but just had to force quit the game because of the bugs. Sometimes moving across the map between sections is buggy, as is attempting to buy seeds at Pierre’s. I just got stuck in the mine and Linus found me because the game froze while I was being attacked. I also wish there was a better system for manual attacks, as I try to attack the creatures, and the game switches to my other tools mid hit. Having to force quit and not being able to save is so frustrating because I don’t even know what I lost/gained that day. I know it’s a game on a new system, but I really hope it is upgraded soon so it feels semi-similar to other systems.
I’ve been absolutely addicted to this game for the past three weeks or so, and I’ve loved every minute of game play. The music is so calming, and the game content keeps you wanting more. It’s very easy to get caught up in the game and next thing you know, three hours have passed! So yeah, I’d say it’s pretty cool.
But why the four stars instead of five? Well, it’s simply because there are quite a few bugs. Yes, some of them are pretty harmless. There seems to be an audio glitch where the fishing pole reeling sound and the black smith area sound will keep playing and won’t stop unless you close out the game. Not to terrible, right? Well there is one particular bug that is quite the opposite. It seems like sometimes when accessing the artisan bundle in the community house, the game won’t unpause when you exit out. You can’t fix this unless you exit out of the game, but it DOESN’T SAVE THE GAME! There have been plenty of times when I’ve gotten a lot done in an in game day, only for it to be stuck paused and I loose all my progress. This is very frustrating quite obviously.
While I understand that this game hasn’t been out long on Apple Arcade, I can not give five stars in good faith unless some of these glitches are fixed. Much love to Concerned Ape for all their hard work, though <333
The whole game is very much cool & for a quarter price heck ya! But their a big BUT in the case the whole game is good but recently not to long ago I was playing and it kept crashing my game which was odd I am not sure if because it’s Apple Arcade it has to be a good connection to the wifi to be able to play or something I don’t know, crashes are very frequently like.. way to much they happen every time you have been in the game for like 20 mins & anything you have done in that time.. well it goes away like nothing happened that day over all it’s so good everything else is good just that the crashes need to be fixed ASAP! & as well as the black smith shop also having crashes every time you get in their also sound playing like if you were still out side instead of inside :\
Every time I try to process geodes my game crashes on both iOS (iPhone 14 pro running latest OS update) and iPadOS (iPad pro 12.9, also running latest update). I was really excited about mining and having geodes processed but upon checking Reddit it appears this has been an issue in the iOS version of the game for the past 74 days at least, so I’m not holding my breath for there to be an update and I’ll just sell my unprocessed Geode so it stops taking up space in my inventory. It’s also frustrating because the first time it happened, I had already watered all of my crops and attended to other chores before going to have the geode processed, so all of my progress from that day was gone.
Outside of this the game is great, especially once I figured out I could connect my Xbox controller via Bluetooth. I’ll gladly update my review to 5 stars once the geode issue is resolved.
Either we need a save button that works so we can save progress without having to go home and sleep. Especially with all the bugs and glitches. It’s a lot of fun and I’m glad it made it to the iPad, but every time I go to have my geodes cracked it crashes the game. Kicks me all the way out. Then I lose ALL progress and activity from between the last sleep-save and when I went to the blacksmith. I can deal with stuck sounds and holding things over my head indefinitely, but losing progress and loot because a base activity crashes the game is horrible. Please give us the ability to save at will since we all know that bug fixes will be an ongoing process for quite a while.
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